António Félix da Costa and Robin Frijns in their MS Amlin Andretti ATEC-002 electric race cars finished out of the points in the third race of the Formula E season, run on a street circuit in Buenos Aires.
Félix da Costa qualified seventeenth after coming back from a crash in the first practice session, and Frijns qualified thirteenth. As both racers were caught in traffic early in the race they could not gain positions before the mid-race pit stop and car change. After the stops Félix da Costa was able to move up to eleventh, finishing just out of the points, while Frijns finished fourteenth. Renault eDams racer Sebastien Buemi took the win; it was his third in the three races run so far this season.
Félix da Costa said “This is a track that historically has been pretty good for me, having won here in the past and then last year running second until we had some problems. I was looking forward to this race, but today I made things a little harder on us with the crash in FP1 – sorry to the MS Amlin Andretti crew for that. We tried to come back from that, but then I made another mistake in qualifying and we had some small issues with the battery. We struggled today. I think sometimes we need bad days like this to do big steps forward. That’s what I’m hoping for going to Mexico.”
BMW Motorsport is partnering with the MS Amlin Andretti team in the series and is supplying i3, i8, and X5 xDrive40e support vehicles to the all-electric car series. Competition resumes in Mexico City on April 1. The series is coming to the streets of Brooklyn, NY on July 15-16.—Brian S. Morgan
